Ticket issuing and collecting



APPLICATION HLED APR. 12. |9l9.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919.

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A. SWARTZ.

TICKET ISSUING AND COLLECTING.

APPLICATION FILED APR.12.1919. 1,319,254. Patented Oct. 21,1919.

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ALBERT SWARTZ, or TOLEDO, 0310.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT SWARTz, acitizen of .the United States of America, residing at Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in 7 Ticket Issuing and Collecting, of which the following is .a specification. 1

This invention relates to computing and verifying charges. 7 1:

This invention has utility especially in ticket issuing at entrance and paying on departure, as in zone travel computation.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a diagrammaticview of a type of car. towhich this device may be adapted and in which the method may be readily used.

Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and are other types of cars or traveling Vehicles towhich the device, and the method of use, may be readily adapted.

.Fi ..8 is a diagrammatic view of a system aving isolated stations, or points for entrance and exit, sothat the issuing and collectlon of tickets may occur apart from the vehicle, as in mstancesof'subways and elevated railways Fig. 9 is a detail view of mechanism of the apparatus adapted especially for use in carrying out the method. disclosed of zone handling for fares. 1

Fig. 10is'a wiringdiagram of intercom trol for these ticket collection and issuing apparatuses. 1 i

Fig. 11 is a view of a ticket as issued and; Fig. 12 is a view of such ticket as marked or charged by the collection apparatus.

In carrying'out the invention it has speclal adaptation. for use in those 1nstances where the rate of charge may vary according to the point ofingress and egress of an individual. This condition arises in its.

simplest form in the matter of transportation, especially as to travel .between cer-- tain zones- As an instance of this, a street car 1 may be considered as having in its forward portion a. station 2 for a motorman, operator or driver. -An entrance 3 at the rear may be past a station A for a conductor in charge of the collection of fares and the conduct of the passengers in the car. In

this instance the conductor may issue a ticket or hand a ticket from issuing apparatus 5 as each person enters the car. The passage from the car may be by ex1t 5. ad-

jacent collection box 6. This exit 5 is at- Specification of Letters Patentn TICKET ISSUING AND COLLECTING.

the rear of this cari and adjoining the entrance 3.

the ticket issuing apparatus 5 may be star atented"Oct.21,'1919. Application filed April 12,1919. S eria1No.289,71 7. i I i tioned adjacent the motorman station 2,

while the conductor station 4 may be disposed in the rear of the caradjacent the collection apparatus 6- in the. vicinity of exit 5'.

In the type of car 8 (Fig. 3) which has center entrance and exit in the same side of the car, the. ticket issuing apparatus '5' may be disposed adjacent the entrance 3, while the ticket collection apparatus 6 may be disposed adjacent the exit 5- This gen-L.

eral mode I for adapting the 'method and;

apparatus of the device herein as shown in Fig. 3, may conform to the type of car 9 (Fig. 4).

In'the type of cars 9 (Fig. 4) {when used" for front ent'rance as shown'by car 10 (Fig.

adjacent'themotorman station2 while the collection box 6 may be located 'near the j 5) the issuing apparatus 5may be placed- 1 conductor station 4 at the center-ofthe-car I 10 adjacent the side exit 5.

In the type of car 11' :(Fig. which shows a frontentrance 3 and adjacent there.-.

to a front exit 5 the issuing apparatus 5 and the collection apparatus '6 are disposed adjacent the motorman station2. 'Thise'mbodiment may readily be operated asa one.

man .car'.

Car, 12. (Fig. 7) is similar in general structure to the car 11 (Fig. .6) "but'is-designed to be operated by a conductor in addition to The fare collection box 6. and the ticket issuing box 5 maybe disposed adjacent the conductor station l near the front of the car and in the present-imthe motorman.

stance shown as near the station 2. of the motorman.

In those instances of transportation where the stationsare isolated from thepublic, one may consider. the showing (Fig. 8) wherein track 13 for cars or trainsfilhextends.

from isolated station 15, to stations, 16. The

apparatus 5 may be placed at the entrances ofsuch stations and the apparatus 6 at the exits of such stations. a

These ticket issuingandcollecting appara'tuses'may be of some general type of ticket printing machine, for instance the type car-, rying 1211-E of The National Cash Register C0. As an individual enterin )asses the station of the apparatus 5, a pressure say by the conductor or attendant upon button 17, will result in the issuance of a ticket at chute 18, which may be taken by the one entering. This ticket 19 is preferably designed to show the point of issuance and, as shown (Fig. 11) in its adaptation to transportation problems, there may be a zone or place location on the apparatus 6, as an in dic'ator 20 which, in instances of fare handling may be a zone designation or a place designation. In the instances where these apparatuses are carried on a traveling vehicle it is desirable to shift the zones as by pressing on a. key 21, for the ticket issuing zone change station apparatus 5 and upon a key 22 for the ticket collecting apparatus 6. When these ticket issuing and ticket collecting apparatuses are used in non-traveling relations as in subways or on elevated lines at isolated or inclosed stations, the question of shifting the zone indication does not rise and the ap-. paratusin itself may be much more simple, always disclosing the same showing for its station, as well as always printing the same.

In instances where the apparatuses are used upon traveling vehicles, it is desirable to have an interconnection control designation between these apparatuses. In this interconnection control, the zone push button 21 at the ticket issuing station 5 may be provided with a conductor plate 23 on the under side thereof (Fig. 10). 1 Accordingly on depressing this button 21 electric current from lines 24, 25, to terminal'26 may pass through the plate 23 to terminal 27 and then by line 28 to terminal 29, coil 30 to line 31, as the other side of this supply for completing current circuit in energizing the coil 30. The coil 30 thus draws core 32 thereinto, thrusting stem 33 carrying terminal roller 34 to push bar 35 having hinge connection 36 with the bottom of the push button 22 at the collection station 6. This bar 35 is normally held against the roller 34 by spring 37. Accordingly, the bar 35 is thrust away from stem 38 of the push button 22. This pushing of the bar 35 against the stem 38 moves this bar 35 so that depression of thebutton 22 into the housing of the station 6 may occur for the bar 35 is clear of-the housing. However, this position for the bar 35 will continue without a holding of the button 21 at the issuing station 5 for the stem 32 carries a terminal 39 whch in the travel of the core 33 into the coil 30 connects up for current flow from the line 24 through line 40 terminal'41 to pass this terminal 39 to terminal 42 thence by line 43 to the terminal 29 thereby maintaining the coil 30 energized. The pressure on the issuing station button 2-1 may occur as the car makes its last stop in a zone. The change at the collection station 6 may not occur idenhaving earn 45 operate against the arm 46 having pivot bearing 47. About this pivotbearing 47 is a coil spring 48 bearing against the arm 46 to make a yieldable connection. for actuating arm 49 resting upon the button 22 of the station 6. Accordingly when this eXitdoor 44 is closed the arm 49 yieldably acts upon the button 22 and as the bar 35 is clear of the housing 6 the button 22 may be depressed to effect a zone station indica tion change corresponding to the change of station as indicated at the issue station.

This permits the passengers going out at the last station of the zone to be chargedfor that zone while any passenger passing out at the next station' has the zone indication of the collection station 6 show thezone corresponding with the issue station 5 so that the fare collector may make a charge accordingly. As the button 22is depressed cam 50 wedges the roller 34 out to move the bar 39 to break the r. circuit denergizing the coil 30. Accordingly on the recoverance travel of the button 22 thebar- 35 is againin looking position. These charges may be determined by comparison of the location on the issue station ticket or check 51 as adistance deduction from the collection station reading. This difference may show the number of zones which the passenger has traveled. The indication on the station 6 as well as the indication on the station 5 permits the passenger to check up whether or.

not the amount one is charged is in accordance with the indication of issue ticketand the collection station. The deposit of the ticket in the collection station 6 in the chute V 52 results in such ticket having a printed" notation thereon, as shown by ticket 53 (Fig. 12). This is a verification for thecarrier company or operator to check up with the conductor, so there is a double check, one for the passenger aboard who checks up his fare to be paid the conductor and the other a checking up for the company between tickets turned in and fares turned in. The money for the fare may be deposited in a box or may be given to the conductor as may be found desirable.

There is accordinglyprovided by the invention herein a simple means for zone fare collection as a pay-exit proposition in which the ticket is issued for identification at the entrance station. The identification data not only at the issuing station but also at the collection station is preferably something which may be checked up readily and be visible to the passenger or the person being served. With ease the apparatus and method may be adapted to electric passenger service wherein the fare may vary accord ing to the distance one is carried. In disposing the issuing and collection apparatus as here described there may be quick handling of trafiic in a simple convenient manner.

What is claimed and is desired to by Letters Patent is 1. A ticket issuing machine for ticket issuing designation, a ticket receiving machine for ticket receiving designation, said receiving machine having a way for receiving a ticket, and interconnected designation control means between said machines permitting independent ticket handling by said machines.

2. In the handling of tickets, the combination of indication mechanism for a designation of an issuing designation, and collection recording means for checking of said issuing designation in totaling said ticket charge.

3. In the determination of fare, the combination of entry designation mechanism with exit designation mechanism for disclosing relations therebetween in fare collection.

4. The combination for determining zone fare totals including entrance disclosing designation mechanism having means for issuing a ticket, and exit designation mechanism for marking said ticket.

5. A zone fare apparatus for passenger transporting lines including ticket issuing designation means coacting for an entrance zone and a ticket collection designation cosecure acting as zone designation means with the issuing designation means whereby checking of issuing designation with collection designation may disclose distance for fare computation.

6. A zone fare apparatus for passenger transporting lines embodying a traveling vehicle, ticket issuing and ticket collecting apparatus on the vehicle having respectively issuing and collecting designation means, said vehicle having an entrance way for incoming passengers to receive zone entrance designation tickets as determined by the ticket issuing designation means, andan exit way for outgoing passengers to have fare collected as checking up with zone indication at collection designation means.

7. A assenger car having an entrance way and an exit way, a zone designation ticket issuing apparatus at the entrance way and-a zone designation ticket collecting apparatus at the exit Way, said apparatus 00- acting to mark a ticket for passenger and carrier verification as to entrance and exit to determine total for fare.

8. A ticket issuing pay-exit vehicle having mechanism for issuing a ticket to disclose entrance zone, and collection mechanism for receiving and marking said entrance ticket with exit designation of collection zone as basis for charge computation.

In witness whereof I affix my signature.

ALBERT SWARTZ.

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